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Provenance
Kulubnarti
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
house A1, room 1-5, site 21-S-2
Excavation no.
371
Present location
University of Kentucky Museum of Anthropology
Museum no.
85.2.749
Medium
manuscript
Technique
painted
Type of text
document: legal
Language
Greek/Old Nubian
Content
perhaps deed requesting donation
Date
probably 1150–1199
Notes
'official Nubian protocol'
the name of Georgios reconstructed in Browne 2000d
Material
leather
Object dimensions
H: 16; W: 26
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Text colour
 
Lines
17
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Description
rectangular piece of leather
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State of preservation
fragmentarily preserved; right part lacking; a few lacunas; in poor condition; roughly legible in places
Date
probably 1150–1199
Chronological systems
king's occurrence
Dating formulae
[ⲅⲉⲱⲣⲅⲓ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲉⲗ̄ ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲁ̄ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄]
Transcription
"[King Georgios being king of Dotawo]" (l. 1)
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Offices & titles
queen mother (ⳟⲟⲛⲛⲉⲛ): l. 2
architriklinios ([ⲟⲇⳡⲟⲇ]ⲁ ⲇⲁⲩⲟⲩⲣ): l. 2
chief (?) (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ⸌ⲛ⸍): l. 7 (or anthroponym?)
keeper of granaries (ϣⲟⲩ[ⳟ]): l. 3
priest (⳦): l. 11
ouataphil (ⲟⲩⲁⲧⲁⲫⲓⲗ): l. 11
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Nga(l) (ⳟⲁ): l. 10 (uncertain whether toponym)
Source
Browne 2000d, pl. on p. 184
Image
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Latest edition
Browne 2000d, pp. 177–83, pl. on p. 184
Other editions
 
Other publications
Adams 1970, p. 149; Adams 1994, p. 310; Adams – Adams 1998, p. 88; Browne 2003d, pp. 11–13; Nowak – Wojciechowski 2012, p. 228 (no. 33); NOM 3, no. 15 (on l. 7)
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